Nearly 80% of employed Bulgarians with care responsibilities for their children, grandchildren or relatives reported no work-related obstacles to reconciling work and care, according to data from the National Statistical Institute (NSI), released here on Friday.
The data come from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) module “Reconciliation of Work and Family Life” in 2025, published on the NSI website. The survey was jointly financed by the NSI and the European Commission and covered persons aged 18 to 74, inclusive.
According to the module results, 913,500 persons (19.7% of the interviewed persons aged 18–74) had care responsibilities for their own or their partner’s children under 15 years of age. Of these, 772,000, or 84.5%, were employed.
Professional childcare services, including crèches, kindergartens, after-school centres and professional babysitters, were used by 57.4% of persons who cared for their own or their partner’s children.
Among persons who did not use professional childcare services for some or all of their children, 48.9% cared for them themselves or together with their partner (husband or wife).
A total of 463,000 persons regularly cared for relatives aged 15 years and over who were ill, frail or had disabilities. Of these, 61.9% were employed.
In reconciling work and family life, 79.3% of employed persons with care responsibilities for their own or their partner’s children, grandchildren or relatives reported no work-related obstacles.
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